John and Lorna Norgrove have both been made OBEs for services to women and children abroad and in Scotland. They set up the ...

An historian who founded the Borders Book Festival has said being recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours feels like receiving a ...

From the good and brave to the industrious, ingenious and selfless, all of life in Scotland can be found in the King’s ...

One day last spring, just as I had entered the woods, I saw a tiny, spotted fawn struggle to stand for the first time on ...

A statement has been requested from Reading Borough Council and the Museum of Bayeux. The original tapestry is believed to have been commissioned by King William's half-brother, Odo, the Bishop of ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a sprawling piece of embroidery that depicts the 11th-century Norman conquest of England. The linen cloth is roughly 230 feet long and 20 inches high, and it was likely created ...

In colorful detail, the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the epic story of how William, Duke of Normandy, better known as William the Conqueror, became king of England in 1066. Upon Edward’s death in ...

The Bayeux Tapestry narrates the tale of William, Duke of Normandy. After the Battle of Hastings, William went on to become the King of England in 1066. Wondering what makes this artefact so special?

Patrick Gomont, mayor of Bayeux, said in a press release ... which is not technically a tapestry at all — is of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, being killed by an arrow to the ...